Pogostemon cablin, the natural source of patchouli alcohol, is an important herb in the Lamiaceae family. Here, we present the entire chloroplast genome of P. cablin. This genome, with 38.24% GC content, is 152,460 bp in length. The genome presents a typical quadripartite structure with two inverted repeats (each 25,417 bp in length), separated by one small and one large single-copy region (17,...

Patchouli alcohol (PA), a tricyclic sesquiterpene, is one of the critical bioactive ingredients and is mainly isolated from aerial part of Pogostemon cablin (known as guanghuoxiang in China) belonging to Labiatae. So far, PA has been widely applied in perfume industries. This review was written with the use of reliable information published between 1974 and 2016 from libraries and electronic re...

Pogostemon cablin (PC) is a herbal medicine traditionally applied to treat not only common cold, nausea and diarrhea but also headache and fever. The aim of this study was to investigate the analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties of standardized PC methanol extract (PCMeOH) in vivo. Investigations were performed in mice with two analgesic models. One was acetic acid-induced writhing respons...

Indonesia merupakan negara yang kaya akan sumber daya alam hayati salah satunya tanaman penghasil minyak atsiri. Penghasil atsiri mempunyai prospek cukup tinggi adalah nilam (Pogostemon cablin Benth) berasal dari provinsi Aceh. Nilam Aceh terbaik kedua di dunia dapat menghasilkan dengan kandungan Patchouli Alcohol (PA) atas 30%. Minyak dalam industri digunakan sebagai kosmetik, parfum, antisept...

Valeriana jatamansi Jones germplasm collected from sub-temperate Himalayan region of Uttarakhand and North-East state of Meghalaya, India was evaluated under identical conditions at National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Bhowali, India, to study germplasm diversity based on essential oil composition. Twenty one compounds were identified in V. jatamansi root oil by GC and GC-MS. The major c...

Abstract The present work aimed to determine the insecticidal effects of three selected essential oils (EOs) Pogostemon cablin , Thymus vulgaris and Citrus aurantifolia against insect species Melolontha melolontha Halyomorpha halys Pyrrhocoris apterus . EO P. showed very strong M. when it inhibited by more than 50% at concentrations 50–6.25%. Against H. also 50–12.5%. activity was significantly...

The aim of the study was to isolate and identify the major cytotoxic principle from plant leaves of Pogostemon quadrifolius (Benth.) and evaluate its antiproliferative potential against human cancer cells. Plant leaves were extracted sequentially with a soxhlet apparatus, using petroleum ether, chloroform and methanol solvents. Petroleum ether and chloroform extracts exhibited antiproliferative...

Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth. (Patchouli) is an important traditional Chinese medicinal plant that has both essential oil value and a broad range of therapeutic effects. Here we report the first de novo assembled 1.15-Gb draft genome sequence for P. cablin from next-generation sequencing technology. Our assembly, with a misassembly rate of <4 bp per 100 kb, is ~73% of the predicted genome s...